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Title Manning the nation : father figures in Zimbabwean literature and society / edited by Kizito Z. Muchemwa and Robert Muponde.

Publication Info. Harare, Zimbabwe : Weaver Press ; Johannesburg, South Africa : Jacana Media, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 199 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-199).
Contents "Why don't you tell the children a story?" : father figures in three Zimbabwean short stories / Kizito Z. Muchemwa -- Killing fathers / Robert Muponde -- Of fathers and ancestors in Charles Mungoshi's Waiting for the rain / Neil Ten Kortenaar -- "Sins of the fathers" : revealing family secrets in Mungoshi's later fiction / Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo -- Strong healthy man : AIDS and self-delusion / Lizzy Attree -- Fatherhood and nationhood : Joshua Nkomo and the re-imagination of the Zimbabwe nation / Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni -- Mai Mujuru : father of the nation? / Lene Bull Christiansen -- Masculinities, race, and violence in the making of Zimbabwe / Jane L. Parpart -- It couldn't be anything innocent : negotiating gender in patriarchal-racial spaces / Ane M. Ørbø Kirkegaard -- "Boys" : performing manhood in Zimbabwean drama / Praise Zenenga -- "A man can try" : negotiating manhoods in colonial urban spaces in Dambudzo Marechera's The house of hunger and Yvonne Vera's Butterfly burning / Grace A. Musila -- Nature of fatherhood and manhood in Zimbabwean texts of pre-colonial and colonial settings / Mickias Musiyiwa and Memory Chirere -- Intricate space : the father-daughter relationship in Zimbabwean literature and culture / Anna Chitando and Angeline M. Madongonda.
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Subject Father figures -- Zimbabwe.
Father figures.
Zimbabwe.
Father figures in literature.
Father figures in literature.
Zimbabwean literature -- History and criticism.
Zimbabwean literature.
Patriarchy in literature.
Patriarchy in literature.
Literature and society -- Zimbabwe.
Literature and society.
Masculinity in literature.
Masculinity in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Muchemwa, K. Z. (Kizito Z.)
Muponde, Robert.
Added Title Father figures in Zimbabwean literature and society
Other Form: Print version: Manning the nation. Harare, Zimbabwe : Weaver Press ; Johannesburg, South Africa : Jacana Media, ©2007 (DLC) 2008315006
ISBN 9781779221315 (electronic book)
1779221312 (electronic book)
9781770095007 (paperback ; Jacana Media)
1770095004 (paperback ; Jacana Media)
9781779220691 (paperback ; Weaver Press)
1779220693 (paperback ; Weaver Press)